A Rare Case of Cardiac Hydatid Disease without Liver and Lungs Involvement

Hydatid disease is a parasitic infection caused by Echinococcus granulosus. Cardiac involvement is rare especially without liver and lungs tissue involvement. We describe a 12-year-old male patient referred to Mofid Children's Hospital, Tehran, Iran in Jul 2020 due to chronic pericardial effus...

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Autores principales: Mohammad Reza Khalilian, Ali Reza Norouzi, Hassan Zamani, Seyed Khalil Forouzan Nia, Somayyeh Noei Teymoordash
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:b1094c14ea2845089a895b7394440a612021-12-02T19:21:44ZA Rare Case of Cardiac Hydatid Disease without Liver and Lungs Involvement2251-60852251-6093https://doaj.org/article/b1094c14ea2845089a895b7394440a612021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://ijph.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijph/article/view/23153https://doaj.org/toc/2251-6085https://doaj.org/toc/2251-6093 Hydatid disease is a parasitic infection caused by Echinococcus granulosus. Cardiac involvement is rare especially without liver and lungs tissue involvement. We describe a 12-year-old male patient referred to Mofid Children's Hospital, Tehran, Iran in Jul 2020 due to chronic pericardial effusion and suspected tuberculosis infection from Afghanistan. Echocardiography revealed a cystic lesion in the interventricular septum. Thoracic and abdominal computed tomography showed no similar cystic lesion in the lungs and liver. The patient underwent open-heart surgery for cystectomy and medical treatment with albendazole. Histological examination confirmed hydatid cyst diagnosis. The patient was discharged in good condition and oral albendazole was continued. Mohammad Reza KhalilianAli Reza NorouziHassan ZamaniSeyed Khalil Forouzan NiaSomayyeh Noei TeymoordashTehran University of Medical SciencesarticleCardiac hydatid cystInterventricular septumPediatricsPublic aspects of medicineRA1-1270ENIranian Journal of Public Health, Vol 50, Iss 11 (2021)
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topic Cardiac hydatid cyst
Interventricular septum
Pediatrics
Public aspects of medicine
RA1-1270
spellingShingle Cardiac hydatid cyst
Interventricular septum
Pediatrics
Public aspects of medicine
RA1-1270
Mohammad Reza Khalilian
Ali Reza Norouzi
Hassan Zamani
Seyed Khalil Forouzan Nia
Somayyeh Noei Teymoordash
A Rare Case of Cardiac Hydatid Disease without Liver and Lungs Involvement
description Hydatid disease is a parasitic infection caused by Echinococcus granulosus. Cardiac involvement is rare especially without liver and lungs tissue involvement. We describe a 12-year-old male patient referred to Mofid Children's Hospital, Tehran, Iran in Jul 2020 due to chronic pericardial effusion and suspected tuberculosis infection from Afghanistan. Echocardiography revealed a cystic lesion in the interventricular septum. Thoracic and abdominal computed tomography showed no similar cystic lesion in the lungs and liver. The patient underwent open-heart surgery for cystectomy and medical treatment with albendazole. Histological examination confirmed hydatid cyst diagnosis. The patient was discharged in good condition and oral albendazole was continued.
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author Mohammad Reza Khalilian
Ali Reza Norouzi
Hassan Zamani
Seyed Khalil Forouzan Nia
Somayyeh Noei Teymoordash
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Ali Reza Norouzi
Hassan Zamani
Seyed Khalil Forouzan Nia
Somayyeh Noei Teymoordash
author_sort Mohammad Reza Khalilian
title A Rare Case of Cardiac Hydatid Disease without Liver and Lungs Involvement
title_short A Rare Case of Cardiac Hydatid Disease without Liver and Lungs Involvement
title_full A Rare Case of Cardiac Hydatid Disease without Liver and Lungs Involvement
title_fullStr A Rare Case of Cardiac Hydatid Disease without Liver and Lungs Involvement
title_full_unstemmed A Rare Case of Cardiac Hydatid Disease without Liver and Lungs Involvement
title_sort rare case of cardiac hydatid disease without liver and lungs involvement
publisher Tehran University of Medical Sciences
publishDate 2021
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